Loading ...I thought he was going to sort things out then, too. And he beat Clinton, who would have been an equally dangerous president as Kamala, but for different reasons. But he failed because he was a poor judge of character. He thought the swamp creatures were there to help him, culminating in the Fauci fiasco. Trump was telling people to take hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin but then lost the plot, the election and a million Americans lost their lives, and are still losing their lives to the vaccine. What’s worse is that as Trump 47 is that he can’t criticise Trump 45 for the vaccine debacle because he was rabidly pushing it himself. I am absolutely convinced he did not do a good job or the right and smart thing there. Nor did he get out of Afghanistan. Or exercise any restraint over govt expenditure.
So I held high hopes again with 47 that he’d learnt the lessons, and it seemed that he had in many respects in the non-swamp appointees he’s picked for many key positions; health, defence, intelligence for example. DOGE is a great idea and its already claimed a few scalps, but we’ll have to wait and see if the SCOTUS will tell the lower courts to butt out if it’s going to realise its full potential. But he’s failing on the economy and on foreign policy and again I think that it’s because he’s a poor judge of character.
On the economy he’s picked swamp creatures, and they are running circles around him. The only reason for imposing 69% tariffs on Norfolk Island and 10% on the penguins is to make him look dumb, and boy, in the eyes of Australians (and probably the rest of the world!) they’ve succeeded brilliantly. No reining in of govt expenditure with another $4tn needed on the debt ceiling to pay for the tax cuts and defence increases – where is all the revenue from tariffs and savings from DOGE in the equation? He’s picked the wrong guys: again.
He’s going to get frustrated with Putin because he doesn’t understand him. I’ve said it before, Trump has no concept of “non-negotiable”, or of history. With Jolani in Syria he’s repeating all the same mistakes that were made in Afghanistan. He is, I think, starting to get a glimmering of an idea that Bibi might not have the best interests of anyone but Bibi at heart, but Trump is still arming him. The Arabs, with millennia of traditions and centuries of dynastic rule will look on his razzamatazz with quiet contempt and superiority. They will do what they want to do as they always have in the end, regardless of French, British or American influence. Whether that will work out for them is another matter, but that is their thinking.
Does this have anything to do with gold? Maybe not. But Trump won the election on 13th July ’24, which is when the current bull run took off, gold rising over 30% in 10 months.